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From: Nigel Barker
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 00:00

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>: I know the floppy drive is /dev/fd1, but how do I access files from floppy?
>: At the moment I'm having to copy the files to hd under DOS, then load
>: Linux. I assume there is an easier way!

>You should be able to mount floppies on /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1. If they
>are MS-DOS floppies use mount -t msdos.  The error messages from mount
>are sometimes misleading, more often than not any error message from
>mount means you have used no -t parameter where one is needed, or an
>incorrect one.

You can also use mcopy & mdir to directly access DOS floppies without having 
to mount them. Look in the man pages.

Nigel Barker

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Date: 1995/06/04
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